Verdi: Falstaff

Purists should look away now, but I found this production by Mario Martone tremendous fun...Volle inhabits the title role with absolute conviction: he is laugh-out-loud funny, his vocal delivery... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2021, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 21st May 2021
Catalogue No: 757608
Label: C Major

BBC Music Magazine

August 2021

Opera Choice
International Classical Music Awards

2022

Nominated - Video Performance

Verdi: Falstaff

Michael Volle (Falstaff), Alfredo Daza (Ford), Barbara Frittoli (Alice Ford), Nadine Sierra (Nannetta), Daniela Barcellona (Mistress Quickly), Francesco Demuro (Fenton), Daniel Barenboim
Staatskapelle Berlin

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Falstaff is Verdi’s masterpiece of comic opera, in which the behaviour of the ageing Sir John Falstaff, a devious freeloader and would-be ladykiller, causes uproar in the petty-bourgeois household of the Windsor’s. In this performance stage and film director Mario Martone updates the action to the present day and shows Falstaff as ageing rebel in dodgy sideburns and leather jacket. Among the “exquisit vocal cast” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), Michael Volle gives his debut in the title role “with masterly dynamic shadings” (Financial Times) and “as if he had been preparing for this role for a lifetime.” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) while “Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin are tickling out all the wit and all the momentum from this score.” (Online Merker)

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August 2021

Purists should look away now, but I found this production by Mario Martone tremendous fun...Volle inhabits the title role with absolute conviction: he is laugh-out-loud funny, his vocal delivery apparently effortless.

August 2021

Despite the staging’s inconsistencies, there’s much to enjoy, in particular Volle’s central performance, superbly acted and sung, though some might want a bit more generosity in the tone.

July 2022

The Merry Wives form a strong, lyrical set, gleeful at the possibility of overturning the patriarchy. Barbara Frittoli is the buoyant Alice, her delicate voice expertly managed; Katharina Kammerloher’s mezzo Meg offers a perfect match. Grandiose in tone and personality, Daniela Barcellona’s Quickly is vocally and dramatically superb.

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